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Kirk French and Chris Duffy explain French's discovery of the earliest known water pressure system in the New World, located in Palenque, Mexico. Take a video tour of one of the most beautiful Mayas sites, and see in action an example of how Penn State offers researchers the opportunity to collaborate across multiple
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A free public event, titled "Lessons from the Past: Research Reveals Ancient Civilization's Water-Supply Secrets," will feature Kirk French, a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Penn State, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 27, in room 100 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus. The presentation is the last in this year's Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science series, a free minicourse for the general public with the theme "Water: The Next Frontier."

"Landscape" to some people is a beautiful view. Others use it as a verb, for an elaborate kind of gardening.

To the anthropologists, archaeologists, demographers, geographers, and economists who met last weekend at Dartmouth College for the annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology, "landscape" is shorthand for how people perceive their environment and interact with it.